English - How to Find the Solution to a Moral Dilemma

Hi Everyone!

Make sure to check out my friends blog, shes got great content! 

https://hhssofiam.blogspot.com/

This is our first week back from the holidays and this is also my first blog post. Speaking of blog posts, this blog is required from our English class. 

So today I will be talking about ¨The Trolley Problem¨ you may know this or you may have heard it but in other terms. However, if you haven't heard of it I will explain it to you. 

The Trolley Problem 

The Trolley problem is used as an example of a moral dilemma, which is made from a scenario. Of which where a runaway trolley is racing down the rail track and it is going towards 5 workers. These 5 workers can't escape for somewhat reason, but one person (supposedly you) is standing next to a switch. Which changes the route of where the train goes, however on the other route there is one other worker. 

If this were real we would be put into an overwhelming and pressuring situation, where you had picked. Whether you would save 5 people but sacrifice 1, or save 1 and sacrifice 2. 

I will now be telling you my perspective of this situation, but would also most likely be someone else's choice. I would choose to sacrifice 1 person and save the other five, I know 1 life loss would be just as important as 5. But if you think about their families I find that the other 5 would take priority. Maybe one of them would be made the last generation of a family or something like that. 

The Fat Man

Another similar situation or another perspective of this same situation is that there are still 5 people who might die. But there is no other route, however, you will still be sacrifice 1 life, the scenery of this situation. Is that there is a bridge over the track, you are standing on the bridge but there is also one other person. He is considered a very large and heavy person, on the train track, there are 5 workers. Who once again cannot escape for somewhat reason, however, you have the option. Of pushing the large guy next to you off the bridge and because of his large mass he is able to stop the train. Or ignore the situation and let 5 people die, once again this is another moral dilemma. 

If it were me I would have obviously hesitated a lot but in the end, I would push the man off, saving the other 5. However, I know for a fact that I would be deliberately killing someone. But it was not my intention to kill him rather me wanting to save the other 5. I would pick this option because I would not want the burden of ignoring 5 lives on my shoulders. I would rather want to know I did something. But if this 1 person was someone who was close to me I would honestly ignore the situation. It may be harsh but that would be how I prioritise. 

Jim Carrey

Another moral dilemma example uses Jim Carrey as the victim, now you must be wondering why I said, victims. The situation briefly explained: 

¨The dilemma is the same, except that you recognise the guy standing alone as the actor and comedian Jim Carrey. And this is “Dumb and Dumber”-era Jim Carrey. In fact, he’s in costume, and has that bowl haircut he sported in the eminently quotable 1994 film. Remembering all of those funny lines makes you smile. What a great movie.

The five tied-up people are also Jim Carrey—clones, you assume—but they’re the modern, anti-vaxxer version, with full beards and dead eyes.¨

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/variations-of-the-trolley-problem

I would have pushed let the 5 other clones die, and in my opinion, nothing beats the original's personal traits. But also because if they are clones you could always make more, as you still have the original Jim Carrey. 

The Thread

¨In this variation, there is no second track but there is another man standing nearby, between the trolley and the five helpless people. If you shove him onto the tracks, his body will likely stop the trolley. You know nothing about this man except that at this very moment he’s on his phone composing a tweet that begins with the word “thread.”

Also, he’s vaping.¨

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/variations-of-the-trolley-problem

During this situation I think I would choose to push the fat man off, I know he didn't do anything and I don't even know him. That's why I can't always be sure that he was a good man and the fact that he vapes. Adding to that fact he must be, frankly speaking, is obese or overweight. If he would be able to stop a train, his life would have already been cut short so that would be. My support for my reason to push him off. 

The Long Overcoat

¨You can’t be a hundred percent sure, but it looks like the person standing alone is actually two small people, one standing on the other’s shoulders, sharing a long overcoat. Could they be children? Who are they trying to fool? And why? In any case, they’re probably up to no good.

Does that merit a death sentence, though?¨

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/variations-of-the-trolley-problem

It does seem suspicious but we are also not completely sure whether it is one man or two children. Either way, it is something you would be curious about, and depending on how this ¨prop¨ or disguise. As described in movies you would think that he would be a bad guy from first sight. So I would hesitate but my instinct would be to flip the switch so I would be saving the 5 people. 

Adolf Hitler

The lone man is Adolf Hitler. Actually, this one is kind of a no-brainer, isn’t it? Not sure why it’s even listed here.

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/variations-of-the-trolley-problem

Without hesitation, I would most likely flip the switch and kill Adolf Hitler, I mean I guess I would be doing everyone a favour. 

The Violinist

¨Again, the person standing alone is actually two people. But this time one of them is a world-famous violinist who’s been surgically attached to the other person. And you think, “Wait, that’s another thought experiment altogether. The abortion one. What the hell is going on here?”

Whatever is going on, it looks like the one person has had just about enough of the other person’s fucking violin playing. He would probably welcome death.¨

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/variations-of-the-trolley-problem

Well I have no idea if the other person who was not a violinist was even willing to be surgically attached. As he was already willing to die and it seemed like the violinist was not a considerate person at all. I would figure that it would be OK if I like this ´person´ or as I could say these people die. 

The Henchmen

¨Same dilemma as the original, except that you wouldn’t be pulling the lever yourself. One of your henchmen would pull it. From your position, many yards away, you would look your henchman in the eye and nod, almost imperceptibly. He would understand.

P.S. In this variation, you have henchmen. Because you’re a mob boss or something.¨

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/variations-of-the-trolley-problem

Looking at the situation since I'm a mob boss my life must be pretty valuable, no wonder people want to kill me. But because of my importance I have henchmen standing by the lever. So my choice would be to just tell him to pull the lever. 

The Chiselled Features

¨The lone man is athletic and attractive, whereas the five others are not, to put it charitably. This adds yet another wrinkle. Not because attractive people are more deserving of life than ugly ones are, but because—at a moment with so much at stake—you noticed such superficial traits in the first place.

What does that say about you?¨

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/variations-of-the-trolley-problem

My decision wouldn't change from saving 5 people, just because the lone person is attractive. That is no reason to sacrifice and let 5 innocent people die, he may be innocent but 5 more lives are more valuable. But then again we can't even be sure to whether he is a good person or not. Also there will always be another attractive guy somewhere in the world where may I meet. 

The Bowling Pins

¨Instead of lying across the tracks, the five bound people are standing, arranged like bowling pins. While still horrific, you have to admit that this is a little funny—you can’t help but hear that “bowling-ball-knocks-pins-over” sound effect in your head.¨

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/variations-of-the-trolley-problem

Fortunately in this situation I have great humour but is quite dark, sadly I don't have that trait in real life. In the end we have to be mature and pull ourselves together because it is a life threatening situation. I would still decide to flip the switch and direct the trolley the other way. 

The Bluetooth 

¨You know nothing about the lone man, but the five people tied up are all wearing Bluetooth headsets. Not such an easy choice, is it?

You feel paralysed, so you decide to seek advice online. You take out your phone, open Twitter, and write, “O.K., Internet hive mind . . . ”

The trolley hits you at 40 m.p.h. You never had a chance.¨

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/variations-of-the-trolley-problem

Well in the first I shouldn't have went on my phone and it took me way too long, since i'm a small person. I would've went flying and the trolley still would've hit the five people but If i were really there. Bluetooth headsets don't matter to me I would just quickly flip the switch before the trolley gets too close. 

Thanks for checking out my blog!

pls comment any feedback I need :)

10 English - Holocaust Research

Hello Everyone! 

For todayś blog post, I will be writing about my recent English work, which is about the Holocaust. That also relates to the movies we watched in English called ´The Boy in the Striped Pajamas´. 

The Holocaust was a very violent, horrific, and traumatic event that is significantly known in history. It was also the time of Hitler and was caused and created by Hitler himself. 

Here is my slideshow that shows my research of the Holocaust that are mainly based on these 6 topics:

• Genocide
• Nazi Party
• Kristallnacht
• Anti-Semitism
• Gestapo
• Ghettoes

I hope you learn something from my work, and please give me feedback on your opinion :)

10 English - Genocide - Film Study

Hi everyone!

Today for my English lesson I will be talking about an article that I have read. This said article Is about the time of Hitler, everything involving the Nazis and the holocaust. We got to pick out of 6 different articles:

• Nazi Party
• Genocide
• Kristallnacht 
• Anti - Semitism
• Gestapo
• Ghettoes

I had chosen Genocide, as I feel like this article really explains a lot that happened in the movie 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas'. 

After reading this article I start to understand a lot more about the movie. The reason why the Jews were treated this way is that they were thought to not be human. Their culture was also thought to be inferior to theirs, therefore they thought it was okay to treat their lives like garbage. 

I can make this a connection to the movie, regarding what the movie as showing the jew was always and definitely treated like garbage. They have often kicked around or beaten up for a mistake. To the soldiers, the key was to always be brutal and use violence. 

In Genocide, there always had to be a superior group and an inferior who always had disadvantages. This was usually regarding your culture, the Jews were always inferior and the opposing side was considered superior.  

In the movie Jews had to do all the work and when the soldiers or 'government were down with them. They performed a Holocaust. 

10 English - Film Study - The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Hi There!

Today for our English class we had just finished watching a movie a type of movie that was based on true events.

It was called 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas' I had never watched this movie before. But I have heard so many people talking about it, or how they watched/read it. 

At the start of the movie, I didn't find it that interesting, as I'm not actually interested in the old sort of movies. 

Halfway through I started to get interested, more often I started to see the Hitler logo (Nazi) which is bad. That's why I started to get more intrigued as time went by. 

After researching more about this type of event, the movie was trying to portray the torture and hardships the Jews went through. Through the time being of Hitler's ideas, this was called a Holocaust. 

I found this terrible, the little boy moved from his home town and had no choice but to leave his friends. As his dad from what I remember the general? had to move to a government area. Which was near the camp, which is where mainly the Jews worked and died. 

The little boy wanted to explore so he disobeyed his parent's orders and still went out of his house. He walked through the forest and just kept walking until he reached the camp without noticing. As the boy was young he didn't know anything about how terrible the real world was, he was innocent. 

He was able to meet another little boy around the same age as him, therefore they became friends. The only problem was is that there was always a fence between them which was really sad and sort of devastating. He couldn't even properly play ball with his friend.  

Later on, in the movie, it started to get more intense there was more violence and yelling. The Jews were often beaten up when they made mistakes even the kids, their punishment would always be fatal. If I were a jew I would be terrified to make one mistake. It's scary knowing that you would probably die. 

What was worse was that the kids who were Jews had to grow up in such a hard environment. They couldn't have the childhood they deserved. At first, I was always confused and concerned as to why the Jews hated so much or were thought to be bad. 

They were just blamed for winning the war, it's just so horrifying I can't even find any words to describe how bad it was in history. With all the violence and killings, and murderous acts. 

10 English - 321 RIQ

Hi fellow viewers!

Today we are going to do another '321 RIQ' if you don't know what '321 RIQ' is I had explained it in my recent English blogpost :)

But this time we will be writing more about what we recall from our lessons about film. 

-------------------------------------------

3 Recall - 

• I remember I needed to create a table with different camera shots and images along with them, as examples.  
• I remember us revising static images and how they send messages to people visually. For example the toilet signs. Practically everyone knows the toilet signs, same with other static images. We needed to revise 12 signs from a typical Spanish train station, mainly one that was very old. So some signs were pretty old. As an example for the exit sign, an arrow would be pointing outwards from a box. From that, you could understand what the entry sign would be. 
• I also remember Mrs. Truter our English teacher mentioned that we would be starting off our English classes with film study, and next would be simply writing. 
• We also learned about how people are usually used as references for camera shots and angles. As people are usually the same size on an average, rather than a building. It would be seen from a totally different perspective, for example, a close-up shot. Here for people, you would see their head and shoulders. Imagine this shot on a building, it will be pretty difficult as houses or buildings are all different sizes.    

1 Question - 

• Maybe if we're doing film study, we could really find a way for it to be fun. For e.g, we could possibly study a movie like we did last year and critically informatively reflect on the movie?

10 English - The benefits and advantages of blogging

Hello everyone!

I know this is a late post, but I will be talking about my first English assignment for 2021. Our new English teacher was also new to our school. She originally taught in Auckland and moved down south for family matters. Her name is Mrs. Truter and she is a wonderful teacher, I am definitely looking forward to her teaching us more. I don't know how but she has a way of teaching that gets us to really remember the things she teaches the class. Well, at least that's the case for me.

In our 200 word essay, we had to of course make sure that we had 200 words and that was our minimum. We also had to answer 3 questions which were - 

• What are the benefits of blogging?
• What the advantages of your teacher knowing your concerns?
• How does learning English benefit us through blogging?

Now here is my work, enjoy!

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

10 English, 200-word essay about blogging 

Wednesday, Feb 9, 2021

Benefits of blogging

Personally, I think we do blogging to summarise our work or to show our understanding of the topic. Blogging also gives us the opportunity to practice our writing skills, so we can get better at grammar and punctuation. Blogging can also be a place where we can put down our notes to possibly help us in future projects. In my personal opinion, I enjoy blogging it gives me a sense of achievement, or it shows me how hard I’ve worked. Regarding what my previous teacher said about blogging, apparently, it has been proven that blogging increases our writing level. The new generation is pretty lucky if I say so my self, because if we compare how we do work now to how people did it back then. Our writing may have been easier for us to learn but come out with great results. A blog can also be a perfect platform for LCS. This means Learn, Create, Share, from learning in class, creating a project, and sharing it on to our blog. A blog can also give inspiration to others for their work and can keep people in touch. Also, a project called the Summer Learning Journey gives you prizes for doing blogs throughout the holidays. This benefits our grades, so they can still stay at the same level or decrease only slightly. 

The advantages of having my teacher know/read my concerns, opinions, reflections about my progress. This can help us reflect on our work, knowing our mistakes and correcting them. We can know what to do next time. We can then improve, this can also give us a chance to help other students by giving them feedback and something to reflect on them. Speaking on feedback, naturally, if we get feedback there would be two options. Ignoring it or listening to it, but it would be better to listen, so we can have a good time. Teachers can also get an idea of how we write, making it easier for them and us.

Throughout our life, we need to know English as it benefits probably everything we do, for example, we need to have good English for a career. In my opinion, blogging definitely helps us through English as we get to practice it. It provides us with an opportunity to reflect on our English, It also opens up our writing range/span to a wider audience. It can also provide a good platform with feedback that could possibly help us with our English. 

425 words in total.

10 English - Story

Hello everyone!

In one of the previous lessons for English we needed to create a story that includes the following words: 

• Fallacy
• Enigma
• Disappearance
• Suspicion

It may seem boring to you, but I do base all my stories on movies and that's where I get my inspiration from. 

Before learning those four words we needed to learn the definition of them. Because basically everyone in the class. Didn't know what two of the words were, which could possibly be obvious to you. But if you didn't know, the two words were 'fallacy and enigma'. I was actually pretty proud that I was able to learn these two words. Because it makes me feel a lot smarter saying those words, or saying that I know these words. 

Finally, enough of me talking, you can now read my story, which I hope you'll enjoy reading. 

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The Kidnapper

Jane was walking behind her mother, looking like she was depressed as usual. They were going to go shopping, after all, Jane does come from a rich family. Jane always seems to disappoint her mother, defying her orders, going against what the mother wants for her. The mother is always saying she just wants what’s best for her. But Jane knows that her mother just doesn’t want her to embarrass her and ruin her reputation. While they were strolling the streets in town, from the corner of Jane’s eye she sees an edgy person in a black hoodie. At first, she didn’t mind it she didn’t want to make any assumptions, but it still put her into suspicion. But once she looked again, she had seen something terrible, the man that she had previously seen, grabbed a child’s arm and held her tight, covering her mouth. He ran into a dark alleyway, without thinking Jane ran after the suspicious man. 

Before she could even think, she just ran, it was something that would have just been so tedious to her. While she was running she was panicking at the thought of possibly dying, but she knew she had to do something. Jane always thought that kidnappers were an enigma. She was so overwhelmed with the decision she made and her thoughts, that she lost track of the man. Once she zoned back in, she just kept running but all of a sudden, someone grabbed her roughly. His arms were so strong his bulky hands covered her mouth, restricting her from screaming. He had his other arm wrapped around her throat, Jane was trying to loosen his arm by moving as much as she could. But it hardly did anything, she was exhausted from how much she was trying to escape from the man. Suddenly everything had turned black, she just had a feeling that she was really going to die. 

2 years later…..

The police were still on the lookout investigating the case of the disappearance of Jane. Eventually, the police gave up and suspected she was dead. Overtime rumors have gone around about how the rich family child had been kidnapped. People had always wondered whether the rumors were a fallacy or were they true? This ruined their reputation regarding popularity, this made the mother go crazy. Resulting in her going to a mental hospital, meanwhile, the father was overworking himself. He didn’t seem so affected by the news as he was never close to his daughter, as she was growing up. But he did always wonder what was the reason for his stress, and why did he start to work so much harder. 

In the end, Jane never came back…..

10 English - 321 RIQ

Hi friends! 

This is my first blog for this year's English class. Mrs. Truter had taught us a different way for blogging which will be used in our English classes. This new blogging system is called '321 RIQ'.

3   Recalls - (3 things I remember about the lesson)

2   Insights - (2 new things I learned in this lesson)

1   Question - (1 question about something I didn't understand/would like to know more about)

I will now use this method regarding my previous English lessons. 

3   Recalls - 

• I recall us creating individual stories, which had to include these words - 
• Fallacy
• Enigma
• Disappearance
• Suspicion
• I recall the class needing to do a 200-word essay about the benefit and advantages of blogging. 
• I remember sharing with the teacher a sentence using the word disappearance.

2   Insights - 

• I had re-learned/remembered different nouns.
• I learned about a prefix and a suffix. 
• I also learned about '321 RIQ'. - (extra)

1   Question -

• What type of work will be doing further into english? regarding that would we be able to do something creative, that still benefits our English?